I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

Reader, I literally married him.

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.